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obama's attention. jessica yellin is traveling with the president. >> reporter: it was in thailand the president gave his first public remarks on the violence in israel and gaza standing by israel. >> there's no country on earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders. so we are fully supportive of israel's right to defend itself. >> reporter: and he put the onus on hamas to make peace possible. >> it starts with no more missiles being fired into israel's territory. >> reporter: but that's not the focus of this trip. less than two weeks after his re-election, he jetted halfway around the world to southeast asia. president obama says -- >> this is no accident. >> reporter: the trip is meant to strengthen trade and security alliances and counter balance china's growing influence. the dramatic highlight? a visit to myanmar, a country long under military rule. now undergoing a democratic transition. in a speech encouraging the nation's reforms, he used his own iden
obama's attention. jessica yellin is traveling with the president. >> reporter: it was in thailand the president gave his first public remarks on the violence in israel and gaza standing by israel. >> there's no country on earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders. so we are fully supportive of israel's right to defend itself. >> reporter: and he put the onus on hamas to make peace possible. >> it starts with no more...
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anderson cooper live for us this morning in gaza. >> president obama takes a historic trip to myanmar and cambodia. what he has to say and why everyone is not happy the president is even there? >> is the black friday frenzy all just a big scam? how you can stay home this year and still get the best deals. >>> the clock is ticking here on the fiscal cliff. we continue to talk about it. 43 days to go. why there is new optimism there will be a deal reached soon. >> it is monday, november 19th. "starting point" begins right now. >>> good morning, everyone. soledad is off today. we want to welcome in our special team that's joined us here. "new york times" columnist. nan hayworth. ron brownstein, cnn political analyst is here as well. >> welcome to you all. we will be talking here in a moment. we have to begin with the huge story. "starting point," this morning, death and despair mounting in the middle east. the conflict in gaza city, it is intensifying. it's been intensifying overnight. look at the destruction here. an israeli missile slamming into a residential neighborhood taking out th
anderson cooper live for us this morning in gaza. >> president obama takes a historic trip to myanmar and cambodia. what he has to say and why everyone is not happy the president is even there? >> is the black friday frenzy all just a big scam? how you can stay home this year and still get the best deals. >>> the clock is ticking here on the fiscal cliff. we continue to talk about it. 43 days to go. why there is new optimism there will be a deal reached soon. >> it is...
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he will join us live from gaza. >> also this morning an historic trip. president obama, the first sitting president to visit myanmar and cambodia. but not everyone there is celebrating those visits. we're live this morning in myanmar. >> tensions in the mideast affecting your money here at home. could we see oil prices rise just in time for the holiday travel season? >> and bieber
he will join us live from gaza. >> also this morning an historic trip. president obama, the first sitting president to visit myanmar and cambodia. but not everyone there is celebrating those visits. we're live this morning in myanmar. >> tensions in the mideast affecting your money here at home. could we see oil prices rise just in time for the holiday travel season? >> and bieber
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let's head back to gaza city. the media center came under attack by israeli forces. two missiles hitting that building. we understand an islamist jihadist leader was killed. he had offices in that building. that was the israeli target, not western journalists who sometimes work out of that building. most of them had already evacuated. also, we brought you the story of the border town between gaza city and israel. our fred pleitgen was talking about these rockets you were seeing launched from the israeli side of the border and also he saw rockets launched from the other side of the border. here is what happened next. >> carol, we have an alarm going off right now. i'm going to have to seek cover. we're going to go over here. let's take the camera off the tripod. we have to get into safety. >> you go. you go, go, go. >> queer going to have to get down. this always makes me so nervous. >> reporter: no place to go here really. you have to get down on the ground and wait for it to pass. just hope it doesn't hit anywhere here. they're telling us to go inside the shop. no,
let's head back to gaza city. the media center came under attack by israeli forces. two missiles hitting that building. we understand an islamist jihadist leader was killed. he had offices in that building. that was the israeli target, not western journalists who sometimes work out of that building. most of them had already evacuated. also, we brought you the story of the border town between gaza city and israel. our fred pleitgen was talking about these rockets you were seeing launched from...
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jill, exactly what is the obama administration doing right now? >> reporter: well, they're on the phone, wolf. the president is in asia. he is making telephone calls and practically every senior administration person is doing the same thing. president obama calling israel, prime minister netanyahu, and egypt three times to president morsi. and president clinton calling the egyptians three times. i looked at the list, egypt, turkey, qatar, the french, ban ki-moon. and the whole entire is to press any country with any influence on either side but especially with the palestinians with gaza to put the pressure on them to stop the fighting. >> egypt is clearly a key player. they have influence with hamas. what's the u.s. doing in its talks with the egyptian government? >> reporter: again, they're putting as much pressure on them as they can. and there is some pressure because after all, the united states gives egypt about $450 million every year. so here's one expert that we talked to. this is how he explained how the egyptians can use their influence.
jill, exactly what is the obama administration doing right now? >> reporter: well, they're on the phone, wolf. the president is in asia. he is making telephone calls and practically every senior administration person is doing the same thing. president obama calling israel, prime minister netanyahu, and egypt three times to president morsi. and president clinton calling the egyptians three times. i looked at the list, egypt, turkey, qatar, the french, ban ki-moon. and the whole entire is...